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We've been asked to post a reminder that the November 1, 2004 deadline is coming up for applications for Carl H. Pforzheimer Jr. Research Grants from the Keats-Shelley Association of America. For more details, see this previous posting.

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Charles E. Robinson has just brought to our attention an important new Website entitled "British Fiction, 1800–1829: A Database of Production, Circulation, and Reception."

Produced in Cardiff University’s Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research, the site "allows users to examine bibliographical records of 2,272 works of fiction written by approximately 900 authors, along with a large number of contemporary materials (including anecdotal records, circulating-library catalogues, newspaper advertisements, reviews, and subscription lists)."

In the Byron Society Website, you will encounter such things as membership benefits and forms, a history of recent Byron papers at the MLA, a list of the first five Leslie A. Marchand Memorial Lectures (with McGann's lecture available in full text and with others to follow, including the wonderful lecture that Romulus Linney delivered this past Friday), and application forms for travel grants for graduate students.

In the Collection website, you will encounter Byron images and text that will lead you to such things as a donor page, a yet-to-be-developed book-sale page, and a catalogue of many of the items in the Collection, including books, booklets, busts, conference proceedings, engravings, exhibition catalogues, lithographs, manuscripts, sale catalogues, and much else.

We hope that you will use, enjoy, and learn from these websites, both of which will be further developed over the next few months.

The phrase 'Debatable Lands' has been used in reference to disputed parts of the Anglo-Scottish Border since at least the sixteenth century. Popularised by Walter Scott, the term was extended to other geographical areas and into metaphorical use in the nineteenth century. Macaulay in 1828 described history as the "debatable land" between Reason and Imagination. The BARS conference of 2005 invites an assessment of Romanticism's Debatable Lands in the fullest and broadest senses of the phrase.

Proposals for 20-minute papers are warmly invited on any aspect of the conference theme. Proposals should be not more than 300 words and submitted by 15 October, 2004. We are also interested in proposals for Special Sessions. Convenors of Special Sessions are asked to submit a title and details of the three 20-minute papers proposed for the Session by the deadline.

The conference organisers are Professor Claire Lamont and Dr Michael Rossington of the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at the University of Newcastle.

Online submission forms for proposals are available on the conference website. Alternatively you are welcome to submit a proposal by e-mail (BARS2005@newcastle.ac.uk) or by post to:

The South West Interdisciplinary Romanticism Link (SWIRL) has three aims: to strengthen a network of scholars working on different aspects of the period 1750-1850, to facilitate debate across the disciplines, and to boost the profile of Romantic studies in the region. We envisage a forum in which academics from the South West and beyond could explore the intellectual and professional challenges that currently energise our field.

This kind of project presents significant intellectual difficulties. "Romantic" can mean different things in different disciplines, and it would be foolish to impose a definition from the outset. Instead, we want to start a conversation about interdisciplinary engagements in Romantic studies. Are such things possible? Are we already involved in them? What shape might they take in the future?

With those questions in mind, we invite Romanticists to join us for a one-day symposium, comprising round-table discussions stimulated by short papers. Speakers drawn from a variety of disciplines will describe their current research and tell us how they engage with interdisciplinary approaches.

The symposium will be held in the beautiful surroundings of The Holmes, a listed building dating from 1879, where the American General Staff met during World War II. Places are limited, so please let us know soon if you'd like to come.

This is a new electronic edition of Bennett's valuable 1976 book, in which she collected 350 poems from among over 3000 she discovered in newspapers, journals, and books of the time, together representing the complex and shifting attitudes of Britons during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Over the years since it was first published in 1976, this collection has been prized by several generations of Romantic-era scholars who owned or, after it went out of print, were fortunate to find an extant copy. This electronic edition of Bennett's British War Poetry was created in order to give current and future scholars access to this significant work of scholarship. Besides hypertext annotations and menus allowing the user to access the poems by date, title, and author, and a keyword search engine covering the collection as a whole, the edition includes Bennett's original introductory essay and bibliography, as well as a new bibliography listing 1030 additional war poems not included in the original book.

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Announcing the world premiere of The Bride of Prejudice: The Marriage of Lord Byron, a new play by Peter Dunne, running Tuesday 5 October-Sunday 24 October; Tuesdays-Sundays (7:45pm) at Barons Court Theatre, 28A Comeragh Road, London, W14 9RH (Nearest Station Baron's Court/West Kensington--Piccadilly and District Lines) Admission: £12 (Concs.£10)

Box Office 020 8932 4747

Following the success of The Remarkable Piety of The Infamous, Peter Dunne's hilarious and unforgettable production about Oscar Wilde in Paris, Primrose Productions return to Baron's Court Theatre with his new play, Bride of Prejudice, the story of Lord Byron's marriage.

After the publication of Childe Harold in 1812 Whig society had a new idol, Lord Byron. Adored by the Beau Monde and in particular by Lady Caroline Lamb who hounded him relentlessly, his celebrity grew more notorious. Consequently he decided to marry and through the meditation of his confidante Lady Melbourne (known to her friends as "the Spider"), a match was proposed with her niece Annabella Milbank. Annabella refused his proposal on the basis of 'the wicked nature of his principles'. Subsequently Byron's half sister Augusta Leigh arrived in London to escape her husbands gambling debts. Byron found himself fatally drawn to this forbidden fruit and secretly they fell passionately in love. This doomed relationship and Annabella's eventual acceptance of Byron's proposal is the subject of this fascinating play, Bride of Prejudice.

For more information about Bride of Prejudice, or to interview cast or playwright, call 07951766355 or email Dunne3000@hotmail.com

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Romantic Circles is very pleased to announce a new electronic edition of Robert Southey's historical dramatic poem about the 1382 Peasants' Rebellion, Wat Tyler. This important play was written in 1794, at an important moment politically, but remained unpublished until 1817, when a series of pirated editions appeared, printed by publishers intent on embarrassing the now-Poet Laureate Southey. The subsequent public legal battles over the work's publication and its extremely partisan reception make it worth studying, both as an example of early Romantic drama and as an episode in the political upheavals that followed Waterloo. The electronic edition was produced by a team of graduate students** at the University of Maryland, College Park under the guidance of Neil Fraistat. Matthew Hill oversaw the project through most of its stages. Michael Gamer (U Penn) stepped in to provide final assistance, reworking and finishing the project, expanding and rewriting its content.

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The Romantic Circles Website is pleased to announce officially what many of you will have noticed already--our new site design, the fine work of Site Manager Joseph Byrne and the first complete redesign since 1996. Click on the logo above, visit the site, and send us your feedback.

Besides the new look, you'll notice some organizational changes, including the recent addition of the already-announced Pedagogies section, under the editorship of Ron Broglio, Laura Mandell, and Tilar Mazzeo. This exciting new section, along with this blog--now a year old--adds new kinds of content to the Website and also takes over most of what was formerly under the heading of Features & Events (Editors' Dispatches, for example, which was in many ways the prototype for this blog.) The former Publications section is now superseded by a new Bibliographies section, under the editorship of Kyle Grimes and the Electronic Editions section is now under the editorship of Tilar Mazzeo. Other frequently-updated sections, such as Romantic Circles Praxis and Romantic Circles Reviews, as well as the Villa Diodati MOO, remain under the able direction of their wonderful section editors, Orrin Wang, Jeff Cox, Charles Snodgrass, Jeff Ritchie, and Ron Broglio. Among the features of the new design are two prominent "circles" for displaying and linking to forthcoming and new materials.

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This notice came today courtesy of Doucet Fischer of the Keats-Shelley Association of America:

As in previous years, The Keats-Shelley Association of America will award two Carl H. Pforzheimer Jr. Research Grants of $2,500 each this year to advanced graduate students, independent scholars, or untenured faculty members pursuing research on British Romanticism and literary culture between 1789 and 1832, with preference given to projects involving authors and subjects featured in the Keats Shelley Journal Bibliography. The deadline is 1 November 2004. Further information and application forms may be obtained at the KSAA Website, or applicants may write to Grants Committee, Keats-Shelley Association of America, Inc., New York Public Library, Room 226, 476 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10018-2788.